Includes: "Zur Elektrodynamik bewegter Körper." Pp. 891-921. Weil 9. * "Über einen die Erzeugung und Verwandlung des Lichtes betreffenden heuristischen Gesichtspunkt." Pp. 132-148. Weil 6. * "Über die von der molekularkinetischen Theorie der Wärme geforderte Bewegung von in ruhenden Flüssig kieten suspendierten Teilchen." Pp. 549-560. Weil 8. Whole volume offered. viii, 1020 pp. With 5 plates. 21.5x14 cm. (8½x5½"), period green cloth, spine lettered in gilt; custom-made half morocco slipcase & chemise. First printing of each paper.

The Annalen der Physik, Vierte Folge, Band 17, is perhaps the single most important journal volume in the history of science and physics, containing three breakthrough papers by Albert Einstein. The volume includes the epochal first paper on special relativity; the Nobel prize award winning paper on the photon and the photoelectric effect; and the demonstration of the atom's existence through Brownian motion. Max Born called Band 17 "one of the most remarkable volumes in the whole scientific literature."